Drip-Feed Explained: When Slow Delivery Beats Instant
Drip-feed splits your order into runs over hours or days. When to use it, how to set runs and intervals, and the price math.
What drip-feed does
Instead of 10,000 views at once, drip delivers e.g. 10 runs of 1,000 every 60 minutes. The growth curve looks organic, filters stay calm, and big volumes become safe for young accounts.
The tradeoff is time: a 10k order dripped over a day finishes tomorrow. For urgent launches (contest ending tonight) pick INSTANT instead.
Setting runs and intervals
Formula: total ÷ runs = per-run amount, runs × interval = total time. Example: 5000 followers, 5 runs, 180 min interval = 1000 per run over 12 hours.
Keep per-run amounts above the service minimum and intervals at 30+ minutes. Ten runs every 5 minutes is just instant delivery with extra steps.
The price math
Providers multiply the price by the number of runs, and honest panels show it upfront — the order form recalculates the charge live when you toggle drip. If a panel hides drip pricing until after payment, leave.
Rule of thumb: use drip for anything above 20% of your current base, instant for small top-ups and time-critical pushes.
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